Sepsis due to gestational psittacosis: A multidisciplinary approach within a perinatological center - Review of reported cases

International Journal of Fertility and Women's Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-20

  Janssen, Mirjam J ^a,b   Van De Wetering, Koos ^a   Arabin, Birgit ^a,b  

^a ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b Clara Angela Foundation   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; Diagnosis; Gestational; Ovine; Psittacosis; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELIVERY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; ORNITHOSIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHEEP; SURVIVAL; TROPHOBLAST;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PSITTACOSIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SEPSIS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 33645100802     PISSN: 1534892X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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